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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
Exactly!
So - any ideas? I can get the basic broadband from £0 to £20 but the stumbling block is the IP addresses...
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your talking about your current (french owned) Orange ISP putting these new per byte charges on their upload and download traffic right?
simply put they are ranked as one of the worst ISPs, they apparently give one of the worst DSL transfers for a given line, and they are probably not giving you your top speed
you could get elswere.
the choice is yours OC, but its inevitable that once you accept the new (Orange?) per byte contract, they will magicly (as in change a setting in their kit) find a way to give you slightly faster rates on your line to take you over the crumby 2GIG upload/download
combined limit, and you will find your paying these extra charges month on month as you go over the set amount without realising it.
you never went over before, so you assume you wont then, and thats a mistake, they will try and lock you into the new contract, and you cant know if you will go over the base rate 2 gig until you try it, its to late by then OC....
what exactly are you using these so called free fixed IPs for anyway?
if they are important to you then your far better off getting a good ISP that can run your line at its max and look to other services elswere.
for instance it would be nice if VM even came close to this free webside ISP deal, VM wont even give you a working Bin dir, and scripts or even enough space to make it werth using as a dump files for your VM friends to pull stuff of , these guys give you loads more and for free on the basic webserver package to hook you with a perfectly usable free package, and have you pay for better packages, the way it should be done everywere OC....
http://www.000webhost.com/features
i dont think they give you more than their given IP on the servers OC but they may do a payed for add-on....
if you really want your own fixed IPs then your far better off looking at the free IPv6 tunnels, and trying out that new web space,
they give you all the free v6 IPs you might need and you get to be part of, and help grow the end users www IPv6 world tunnel network while the worlds ISPs refuse to turn on ipv6 and Multicast protocols and keep filtering them out to your desktop CPE BB kit sat on your table/desk...
http://go6.net/4105/freenet.asp
http://tunnelbroker.net/
and even tunneling into the multicast enabled Janet
http://www.broker.ipv6.ac.uk/tunnelreq.html
iv not got seriously into this as yet, never find the time
but its clear, if you want to take your home PC LAN kit and put it to good use as a slower (due purely to your slower ISP given upload rate) serverside direct ip device for other end users to connect to and use, then the IPv6 tunneled access service offered for free to the world community above seems like your best bet for everyones home use, OC the faster your upload rate the better your tunneling connections and the services you can use effectively.
"enableing you to reach the IPv6 Internet by tunneling over existing IPv4 connections from your IPv6 enabled host or router to one of our IPv6 routers. To use this service you need to have an IPv6 capable host (IPv6 support is available for most platforms) or router which also has IPv4 (existing Internet) connectivity.
Our tunnel service is oriented towards developers and experimenters that want a stable tunnel platform."
OC if your using these so called
free fixed Orange IPs you mention above ,then again your far better off paying slightly more and getting the far better speeds form another ISP vendor,and putting your fixed IPs on that , as you can get your personal IPs assigned to you were ever you go rather than rely on some free IPs that your now going to loose or pay far more per byte in traffic later.
per byte tarrifs might be good for the ISP vendors profits but thay re a very bad thing for the worlds End users as can be seen with the mobile phone SMS charging models, you just dont get value for money per byte and its geared to maximising company profits.
and your not doing yourself or everyone else any favours for the long term future if you sign upto and use these per byte services as your main web connection long term.
you allow these companys to rip you off,they will gladly and gradually allow you to keep paying OTT prices, and all your doing is re enforcing these per byte pricing models and helping them grow at your direct long term expense.....soon you wont be able to buy anything but these per byte ISP contracts if you encurage them to expand and grow on that per byte pricing model they want you desperatly to take.
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